Like most children, Blackie and the Rodeo Kings' Tom Wilson asked his parents a lot of questions growing up.

But they refused to answer his most burning questions — like why his mother Bunny and his father George were so much older than his friends' parents, and why they had no photos of him as a newborn.

Or why his schoolmates would tease him about "looking Indian," when his only connection to Indigenous people was that he sometimes visited his mother's sister, who was married to a Mohawk man on the Kahnawake reserve outside of Montreal.